[Qgis-user] qgis and gps in real-time

[Luca Casagrande]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:59 AM, andrea pacifici <pacifici at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all of you for your suggestions!
>
> I'm involved in a scientific experiment in which a stratospheric
> balloon will transport some instruments onboard and will send the
> acquired data in real-time by a radio signal, including the position
> of the balloon itself. In this experiment we have to track and map in
> real-time the position of the balloon.
>
> I can ask to people working to the on-board electronic to send gps
> info in a specific format (maybe nmea could be OK). But I have to
> understand if Qgis is able to show in real-time the position of the
> balloon in a map.
>
> Many thanks to all of you
>
> Andrea
>
>
>
Hello Andrea.

I hope not be OT, but here [1] you can find an application similar to the
one you are going to start.
In that example, the tracking system is made with a Web Application but it
can be expanded via Qgis, for the
reason that the most import thing is to update the data from the receiver.
Once you have the data updated at a certain interval, you can access them
with anything (for examples a Qgis plugin that
will reload data at a selected interval).

Bye

Luca
[1] http://qgis.org/content/view/109/44/
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